• Zennstrom and Friis hope to charge high enough rates to make up for the limited number of ads, because spots will be targeted to users by geography, demographics and cultural tastes.

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  • But in terms of the overall number, they probably make up the largest share of the jobless.

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  • "I won't make predictions, I will just do my very best to make sure the number goes up and up, " he said.

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  • However, the overall economy has been improving, and perhaps the number will jump up again and make the millions of dollars in advertising worth it to those companies.

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  • The drop in prices has been triggered partly by a contraction in the number of foreign buyers, who now make up 20% of the total, down from 50% in 2007.

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  • Powers and Thomas make up exactly two-thirds of the total number of environmental cops who cover the 650 miles of NYC shoreline.

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  • Changes to the make-up of the Lords would have seen 80% of peers elected and the total number of members halved to 450.

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  • As for the 450 Minuteman missiles that make up the other land-based leg of the arsenal, their locations are well known and the number of warheads they carry has dwindled to a small portion of the nuclear arsenal, so their future contribution to deterrence is uncertain too.

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  • Although white males still make up almost 60% of foreign service employees, the number of minorities has increased steadily in the past two decades.

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  • In June 2010, a new system came into force in which the number of judges required to make important decisions was reduced in an effort to speed up the court's work.

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  • Gregory Rodriguez, a researcher at Pepperdine University, argues that foreign-born Hispanics have three advantages which help them make up for their lack of educational qualifications: the highest number of wage-earners per family of any ethnic group, the highest participation in the labour force, and stable families.

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  • Because it is unrealistic to believe that any institution can begin to make up the difference in loss of football guarantee revenue by playing any number of additional such games in basketball, it is more likely that the second option will occur.

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  • Still, there is hope out there, and it comes in the form of a growing number of leaders who make up an emerging and edgy leadership vanguard.

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  • Why make fans stay up until two or three in the morning and restrict the number of debut-night showings, studio executives reasoned, based on an arbitrary rule?

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  • And Warner is believed to have been angered by AEG president Tim Leiweke's claim that it would not make economic sense to keep the stadium geared up for athletics because of a small number of major events that could be staged at the venue.

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  • However, British number one pilot Minichiello knows where she can make up some of the time.

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  • The reaction between hydrogen atoms to make helium has the biggest yield, but subsequent mergers all the way up to iron (number 26 on the periodic table) will release some energy.

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  • With film cameras, there are a limited number of shots on a roll, and thus only a certain number of chances to make the photo look good (without racking up some pretty serious film costs).

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  • Women have made inroads into a number of nontraditional female professions (like the law): women make up almost of half (47%) of the U.S. labor force today.

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  • If those results hold up in later studies, that would make Isis' chemical, still known by the code number 301012, more powerful than the two most powerful cholesterol cutters on the market: Crestor, from AstraZeneca, and Vytorin, from Merck and Schering-Plough.

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  • The number of banks that failed to make dividend payments in August was 115, up from 91 in May.

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  • He said the squad would include a number of uncapped youngsters who have the chance to prove they can make the step up to international level.

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  • And, while senior officials are entitled to make decisions about which of the countless number of memos generated every day they deem worthy of passing up the line and when, Secretaries of State generally rely as much on direct contacts with their counterparts as staff memoranda to keep them apprized of allied views about pending issues .

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  • We now make up 46% of the workforce and over 50% of college graduates, yet when we look at the number of women pursuing high-growth startups, there still exists a very apparent gap in numbers.

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  • Another part of the problem: Many traders, including a number of high frequency trading firms that normally make up 60% of daily trading volume, stepped aside and stopped buying, draining liquidity from the system when it was trying to deal with a tidal wave of sell orders.

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  • When the thrill of being unplugged outweighs the danger of losing essential data, there are a number of technologies that make it easier to back up those files, keep them hidden and even track down the missing computer itself.

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